AI & Jobs Salesforce Just Pledged to Hire 1,000 New Grads to Build the Agents Replacing Them. Marc Benioff Calls It a 「Narrative Violation.」 The Same Company Laid Off 1,000 in January.
On April 27, Marc Benioff posted that Salesforce is hiring 1,000 new grads and interns 「right now to ride the AI exponential」 — explicitly framed as a counter-narrative to the entry-level-jobs apocalypse. Two months earlier, the same company quietly cut roughly 1,000 employees. The math netted to zero on purpose.